Injured Collection

Shepherd with sheep, horse and dog
A delightful scene on a country track in Cumbria showing a lakeland shepherd carrying home a lame member of his flock, accompanied by his trusty hound and a fine white horse

No. 1 War Hospital, Reading, Berkshire
Rear view of the entrance to the No. 1 War Hospital, Reading, Berkshire - the First World War deployment of Reading Union Workhouse. Several uniformed soldiers can be seen, one on crutches

Wounded Indian Troops - Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Indian soldiers wounded in action during the First World War, convalesce in the Royal Pavilion at Brighton

A red cross working dog during WWI
A wounded German soldier is found by a Red Cross dog. Date: 1915

German poster campaign for injured soldiers
German poster to raise funds for war wounded soldiers, showing a soldier with a crutch in his left hand and tools in his right

Suffragette Emily Davison Epsom Derby Jockey. The Kings jockey Herbert Jones removed from Epsom Racecourse, following the incident on Derby day, June 4th, 1913

Blitz in London -- AFS personnel receiving treatment, WW2
With the Blitz still at its height, Londons firefighters and fire support crews are removed to local hospitals for emergency treatment after receiving injuries fighting the fires started by enemy

WWI - Wounded soldier in the arms of his nurse
WWI - Wounded soldier (who has lost his arm) in the arms of his nurse - Comrades in Arms. Date: circa 1917

A Good Samaritan - Indian Soldier - WWI
A Good Samaritan - Colonial Indian Soldier from Delhi aids a wounded French trooper - WWI. He leads him to the safety of the Allied lines on the back of a Donkey Date: circa 1917

Injured Ww1 Soldier
A British soldier and his wife (or girlfriend) pose for the photographer, with the young mans lost leg stark evidence of the horrors of the conflict and the injuries suffered

Injured soldiers, WW1, 3rd Southern General Hospital, Oxford
Injured soldiers - WW1 - No. 1003 Cowley Section - 3rd Southern General Hospital, Oxford. The importance of light and fresh air in aiding recovery was very prevalent in medical thinking at this time

Bas relief from the Anzac Memorial - Sydney, Australia
Bronze Bas relief from the Anzac War Memorial by Rayner Hoff - Hyde Park, Sydney, Australia - showing the landing of troops at Gallipoli, Dardanelles Front, WW1. Date: circa 1934

Heroic deeds of the War - Corporal Josephine M C Robins
Heroic deeds of WW2 - Corporal Josephine M C Robins, a member of the Womens Auxiliary Air Force (WaF). Awarded the Military Medal (MM)

LCC-LFB Recruit firemen training at Brigade HQ, SE1
During the 1950s recruit firefighters were trained at the Brigade Headquarters, Lambeth. Here the recruit squad are rescuing by carrying down on the 50 foot wheeled escape ladder pitched to the third

Our Soldiers: how they are Made and Mended
A series of intricate images by silhouette artist, H. L. Oakley showing scenes on the Western Front in a mounted regiment followed by the transportation of an injured officer to hospital

Will They Never Come? World War One poster
World War One recruitment poster using a photograph from the Weekly Dispatch showing a bloodied and bandaged British soldier who having just dispatched the enemy with his rifle simultaneously

Hohenzollern Redoubt 1915
Wounded soldiers returning to a Dressing Station through Vermelles during the attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt on the Western Front in France during World War I on 13th October 1915

14th Hussars - Colonel Brown Victoria Cross Re-enactment
Victoria Cross Re-enactment of the bravery of Colonel Edward Douglas Brown (Edward Douglas Browne-Synge-Hutchinson VC) (18611940) of the 14th Hussars - who

NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1823-1910). British nurse and philanthropist. He organized military hospitals for the injured during the Crimean War (1854-55) and founded in London a nursery school

Metropolitan Police officers, Wapping High Street, London
Two Metropolitan Police officers wheeling a Bischoffsheim hand ambulance along Wapping High Street, East London, much to the interest of children, as there is a man lying inside

Blind Italian soldier - WWI
Italian soldiers blinded during World War One - a poem explaining their fate. Date: circa 1918

Injured Cat
A veterinary surgeon holding a cat at the Cats Hospital, Hampstead, London

WW1 - Home Front - Belgravia War Hospital Supply Depot, London - New Rubber Crutch invented by Mr G. Healing. Date: circa 1917

The Gordon Riots, street scene Date: 1780

Lew Lakes Colossal Comedy Company of Comedians
Promotional postcard for Lew Lakes Colossal Comedy Company of Comedians. Popular music hall sketch company set up by Lew Lake (1874-1939)

United States Air Force - Kaman HH-43F Huskie 59-1544 (msn 25), of Detachment 14, 42nd Aerospace Rescue Squadron, at Nellis Air Force Base

Exterior of the Poplar Hospital in east India Road, London. Opened under the patronage of Samuel Gurney, MP to treat people who had suffered injuries in the docks. Date: 1858

Dogs tail painfully run over by a car
Sorry, I have a tail - Oh Mother! What a catastrophy! 1936

WW1 - A group of young girls collecting for wounded soldiers
WW1 - A group of young girls dressed as nurses collecting for wounded soldiers in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France circa 1915

Queen Victoria visiting wounded Crimean soldiers 1856
When her soldiers came back Queen Victoria distributed with her own hands, after military achievement, medals were given out for distinguished valour. Date: 1856

Beware of the Bull - Man comes a cropper, even though he professes to be a Vegetarian! Date: 1906

A couple don t let injury spoil their seaside holiday
Candid seaside photography - a couple don t let injury (to the wife requiring her to be pushed in a wheelchair) spoil their seaside holiday as they stroll (or are pushed) along the promenade

Churchill recovering from injuries following a car accident
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) leaves hospital after being struck by a car late one evening while crossing New Yorks Fifth Avenue in December, 1931, barely escaping with his life. Date: 1931

St Dunstans Hospital for Blind Soldiers - Door Mat Making
St Dunstans Hospital (Hostel) for Blind Soldiers (and Sailors) - Door Mat Making. Date: circa 1918

Wounded French Soldiers - Saintes, France
WW1 - Wounded French Soldiers at Saintes - a commune and historic town in southwestern France, in the Charente-Maritime department of which it is a sub-prefecture, in Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Date: 1914

WW1 era Comic Postcard - Where I beat the Boche - a young bandaged chap back from the front (or pretending to be thus...) shows his girl (on a hanging map of Northern France)

Preparatory sketch by Tom Browne - Pain - screaming boy
Preparatory pencil sketch by the extremely popular English strip cartoonist, painter and illustrator of the late Victorian and Edwardian period

An exhausted cab horse - The Strand, London
London Life - An exhausted cab horse tended to on the street - The Strand, London Date: circa 1901

German holding up the other Central Powers
Russian caricature from WWI era showing Germany struggling to support the failing efforts of their allies, the other Central Powers, The Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria (?). Date: circa 1917

Dummy injured soldier used during training, WW1
A dummy injured soldier used during training at Camouflage School, Kensington Gardens, during the First World War. The Germans would dress up a dummy in captured khaki to look like a British soldier

WW1 - A ward car of an Ambulance Train built by the Caledonian Railway Company, on the order of the War Office, for conveyance of Wounded British soldiers in France from the Front to the Channel

The Kitchener Hospital, Brighton, Sussex - WWI era
The Kitchener Hospital, Brighton, Sussex - WWI. Initially opened as Brighton Union workhouse on Race Hill, at Elm Grove in Brighton, Sussex, which opened in 1867

Skull showing bullet hole in right temple
Skull of adult male suicide case. Taken during the archaelogical excavation at Christ Church, Spitalfields, London, 1984-1986

GLC-LFB Fifty pump fire, Tooley Street, Southwark
The biggest blaze of the decade was fought at Wilsons Wharf, near Tooley Street, Southwark, in the summer of 1971. It was the same location that cost the life of Londons Fire Chief

London AFS fireman at a hospital during the Blitz, WW2
London AFS fireman at a hospital for medical attention during the Blitz

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